"I don't care what you think:", the woman yelled in the ear of the police officer taking the missing persons report at the San Diego police department. "My mother was a Christian, saved by the grace of God, and she lived her life according to the word of God. When you live your life according to what the word of God has to say, and dedicate everything you do to the Lord, and live a life that's filled with sacrifice, God can just take you from the earth - you don't; have to die!"

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There is a town in northern Germany, a short ride southeast from Hamburg along the Ilmenau River, which has in its center a church where Johann Sebastian Bach was said to have received organ lessons as a young man.  The church is an imposing gothic structure of wood, brick, and mortar, and it occupies a significant plot of land, spreading out over several hundred feet. Its most distinguishing feature is its towering steeple – the tallest in Lower Saxony, reaching 108 meters into the sky.  Yet what makes this steeple most remarkable isn’t how it dominates the otherwise humble landscape it inhabits, but rather, its crookedness.

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